I listened to Magellan roughly 10 years ago. I never got past Test Of Wills and I had an opportunity to hear Hundred Year Flood (is that what it's called?) once. Like the Trent Gardner side projects, the Magellan albums do not age well. I'd say the best one is probably still the first one, or ToW.

A co-worker brought in Magellan's Hundred Year Flood and I had to shut it off because it was becoming so freakin' goofy. So glad I listened to them before buying anything. Music made me naseous.

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I`m a pretty big Magellan Fan and have been for many years now , Steve Walsh from Kansas has done some work with Trent Gardner and so Has Kerry Livgren , I would recommend their First CD Hour of Restoration Magellan CD`s are a little hit and miss I think maybe you heard one of their weaker CD`s .

A progressive classic I`m sure you will like is one of Trent Gardners (Magellan) side project it is called Original Cast Recordings Leonardo The Absolute Man (on the Magna Carta label) I think its great probably better than anything Magellan the band have done, theres this thing people say "Trent seems to save all his best work for his side projects" in the Leonardo case I think it is true !

uhm.. Am I the only one who thinks that impossible figures an symphony for a misanthrope are good albums?

I like both of those CD`s , I just feel early Magellan (first two CDs) was more interesting, like Trent Gardner had something to prove, his social commentary and progressive vision was greater over all in the early days for Magellan so were the songs .

The only album I've heard from Magellan is the last one, "Symphony For A Misanthrope", and it's a good example of Modern Symphonic/Hard Music !!

But there's a big confusion about this band: on this site, I first saw them classified as Prog Metal, then as Symphonic Prog and finally as Art Rock. (well, definitely not prog metal, because they've just a couple of heavy riffs, now more ...).

I heard Hour of Restoration and Impeding Ascention... good but maybe not my kind of prog... too pretencious IMO... Anyway I really like "Estadio Nacional" cos' the song talks about a sad chapter of the history of my country during the Pinochet dictatorship when the national stadium of Santiago de Chile was used as a prison for hundreds of people... songs like this makes me feel that what happened during the dark 70's in Chile can be known by the rest of the world...

The only album I've heard from Magellan is the last one, "Symphony For A Misanthrope", and it's a good example of Modern Symphonic/Hard Music !!

But there's a big confusion about this band: on this site, I first saw them classified as Prog Metal, then as Symphonic Prog and finally as Art Rock. (well, definitely not prog metal, because they've just a couple of heavy riffs, now more ...).

So, which is their genre ?

Maybe they could be under "Various Genres"?

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There was some discussion about DRM here quite a while ago, and that
Trent Gardner guy posted here after being getting a mail where a member
suggested offering limited lo-fi downloads and removal of DRMs so he
could use the music in his mp3 player. Something like that. Anyway,
Trent Gardner's reply was seriously upsetting. He was a real arse
towards the guy who had sent the mail, and in the process insulted the
other members active in the topic. Therefore I refuse to hear or
support Magellan in any way.

uhm.. Am I the only one who thinks that impossible figures an symphony for a misanthrope are good albums?

I like both of those CD`s , I just feel early Magellan (first two CDs) was more interesting, like Trent Gardner had something to prove, his social commentary and progressive vision was greater over all in the early days for Magellan so were the songs .

These are the two I own and yeah, you can listen to them but there is nothing special in them. Not bad, not very good. Always as I look at the CD's I think that I probably should listen to them again. The covers are so fine and all! But usually I then pick up something else instead.

There was some discussion about DRM here quite a while ago, and that
Trent Gardner guy posted here after being getting a mail where a member
suggested offering limited lo-fi downloads and removal of DRMs so he
could use the music in his mp3 player. Something like that. Anyway,
Trent Gardner's reply was seriously upsetting. He was a real arse
towards the guy who had sent the mail, and in the process insulted the
other members active in the topic. Therefore I refuse to hear or
support Magellan in any way.

There was some discussion about DRM here quite a while ago, and that
Trent Gardner guy posted here after being getting a mail where a member
suggested offering limited lo-fi downloads and removal of DRMs so he
could use the music in his mp3 player. Something like that. Anyway,
Trent Gardner's reply was seriously upsetting. He was a real arse
towards the guy who had sent the mail, and in the process insulted the
other members active in the topic. Therefore I refuse to hear or
support Magellan in any way.

And I missed it? Damn. What was up Trent's arse, anyway? Oh, the MP3 issue. I guess.

The only album I have heard from Magellan was Test of Wills and I found it to be a collection of obvious ripoffs from everything grand that was done in prog, only poorly made. Sold the album and forgot about them.

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